Posts by Cody Hill

How Platform9 Uses OpenStack Ironic to Manage Bare Metal as a Service

By Cody Hill

OpenStack Ironic allows users to manage bare metal infrastructure like they would virtual machines- essentially enabling bare metal as a service. The OpenStack Foundation recently announced that Ironic is powering... Read More

May 3, 2019

Migrating Off AWS: How to Move Production from AWS to Enterprise Data Centers Running OpenStack and Kubernetes

By Cody Hill

Running resource-intensive workloads with high-volume traffic can be very expensive, especially while using managed services like RDS. Public Clouds abstract management of networking and high availability from end-users but incompatible... Read More

July 25, 2018

Cloud Ease of Use, Performance, and Cost Savings: You CAN Have It All

By Cody Hill and Gautam Jayaprakash

Platform9 helps customers build and run their cloud every day – with a SaaS-based, easy to use platform that lets you manage your hybrid environment- across bare metal, public cloud,... Read More

May 30, 2018

How Platform9 Left AWS, Ate its Own Dogfood, Saved Money and Scaled

By Cody Hill and Gautam Jayaprakash

Platform9 offers the industry’s only SaaS delivered and managed cloud infrastructure platform that accelerates developer productivity while reducing IT spend and increasing resource utilization across data centers and clouds. Unlike... Read More

May 2, 2018

OpenStack Ironic: Enabling Bare Metal as a Service

By Cody Hill

OpenStack Ironic is an OpenStack project that provisions bare metal machines rather than virtual machines. Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) allows you to provision your Hadoop or SQL workloads,... Read More

March 20, 2018

GlusterFS : How-to Install and Overview

By Cody Hill

UPDATE: Note that GluserFS Cinder support was deprecated in OpenStack Newton & will not be supported on Platform9 as of 3.6 release. Traditional hardware-based storage has two issues: scalability and... Read More

September 20, 2016

Vote for Platform9 Talks at the Austin OpenStack Summit

By Cody Hill

The Platform9 team is gearing up for the OpenStack Summit, and we’re excited to participate! We’ve proposed a handful of talks and would appreciate your support (vote!) to include our... Read More

February 11, 2016

Automating VMware Tenant Placement in Platform9 OpenStack

By Cody Hill

One of the reasons customers choose Platform9 as their cloud management platform is because it easily integrates with existing virtualized environments. Customers find great value in the ability to take their current... Read More